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Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud is a Funk act. Their sound grew out of James Brown, Bob Marley, Miles Davis, The Temptations and Funkadelic. Those roots explain a lot about how Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud arrange songs and choose their tones. Their influence carried into Big Daddy Kane, Full Force, LL Cool J, 2 Live Crew and Lou Donaldson, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 12 connections around Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud, reaching back through James Brown and forward to Big Daddy Kane. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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"Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud" is a funk song performed by James Brown, and written with his bandleader Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis in 1968. It was released as a two-part single, which held the number-one spot on the R&B singles chart for six weeks, and peaked at number ten on the Billboard Hot 100. Both parts of the single were included on James Brown's 1968 album A Soulful Christmas and on his 1969 album sharing the title of the song. The song became an unofficial anthem of the Black Power movement.
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Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud grew out of James Brown, Bob Marley, Miles Davis and The Temptations, went on to shape Big Daddy Kane, Full Force, LL Cool J and 2 Live Crew. 12 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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